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Jesus was a revolutionary. <ref>This is a really excellent article on the revolutionary Jesus and his political and historical context. Gasper, Phill. “Jesus the Revolutionary?” ''Socialist Worker'', 2011. <nowiki>https://socialistworker.org/2011/12/14/jesus-the-revolutionary</nowiki>.</ref> He represented a powerful, charistmatic, grass-roots spiritual and political challenge to the Roman status quo.<ref>Rethinking the Origins and Purpose of Religion: Jesus, Constantine, and the Containment of Global Revolution.” ''Athens Journal of Social Sciences'' 9, no. 1 (2020): 69–88. <nowiki>https://www.academia.edu/34970150/Rethinking_the_Origins_and_Purpose_of_Religion_Jesus_Constantine_and_the_Containment_of_Global_Revolution</nowiki>.</ref>
Jesus was a revolutionary. <ref>This is a really excellent article on the revolutionary Jesus and his political and historical context. Gasper, Phill. “Jesus the Revolutionary?” ''Socialist Worker'', 2011. https://socialistworker.org/2011/12/14/jesus-the-revolutionary.</ref> He represented a powerful, charistmatic, grass-roots spiritual and political challenge to the Roman status quo.<ref>Rethinking the Origins and Purpose of Religion: Jesus, Constantine, and the Containment of Global Revolution.” ''Athens Journal of Social Sciences'' 9, no. 1 (2020): 69–88. https://www.academia.edu/34970150/Rethinking_the_Origins_and_Purpose_of_Religion_Jesus_Constantine_and_the_Containment_of_Global_Revolution.</ref>


In China, in and around 100-200 C.E., a proliferation of revelatory and visionary experiences prompted ongoing "Rebellions against the existing order..." <ref>Kohn, Livia, ed. The Taoist Experience: An Anthology. State University of New York, 1993. p. 16.</ref>
In China, in and around 100-200 C.E., a proliferation of revelatory and visionary experiences prompted ongoing "Rebellions against the existing order..." <ref>Kohn, Livia, ed. The Taoist Experience: An Anthology. State University of New York, 1993. p. 16.</ref>

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Turn to the Left

The Turn to the Left is a Connection Outcome. It is a form of Activation whereby the individual develops more progressive political, social, economic, and spiritual values. [1]

Examples

List of Connection Outcomes

Notes

Jesus was a revolutionary. [2] He represented a powerful, charistmatic, grass-roots spiritual and political challenge to the Roman status quo.[3]

In China, in and around 100-200 C.E., a proliferation of revelatory and visionary experiences prompted ongoing "Rebellions against the existing order..." [4]

Thomas Merton experienced a significant turn to the left following his Connection Experiences. "Merton too on social issues--writing, for example, on civil rights and against racism--long before such things were fashionable. His outlook struck a chord. Eldridge Cleaver, the former Black Panther leader and author of Soul on Ice, noted that no white man wrote with such a sympathetic eye on the plight and poignancy of Harlem as Merton Did." [5]

I describe the case of Las Casas, a brutal Spanish colonizers who, after a brief Connection Experience, rejected his country's barbarous exploitation of slaves and instead worked politically to end the practice.[6]. Sosteric calls this the Turn to the Left

Ralph Waldo Emerson, a person that by his description of the Oversoul is one who certainly had more than one Connection Experience was a "radical."[7]

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Footnotes

  1. Sosteric, Mike. “Mystical Experience and Global Revolution.” Athens Journal of Social Sciences 5, no. 3 (2018): 235–55.
  2. This is a really excellent article on the revolutionary Jesus and his political and historical context. Gasper, Phill. “Jesus the Revolutionary?” Socialist Worker, 2011. https://socialistworker.org/2011/12/14/jesus-the-revolutionary.
  3. Rethinking the Origins and Purpose of Religion: Jesus, Constantine, and the Containment of Global Revolution.” Athens Journal of Social Sciences 9, no. 1 (2020): 69–88. https://www.academia.edu/34970150/Rethinking_the_Origins_and_Purpose_of_Religion_Jesus_Constantine_and_the_Containment_of_Global_Revolution.
  4. Kohn, Livia, ed. The Taoist Experience: An Anthology. State University of New York, 1993. p. 16.
  5. Harmless, William. Mystics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. p. 24.
  6. Mike Sosteric. "Mystical Experience and Global Revolution." Athens Journal of Social Sciences 5 3 (2018): 235-55. [1]
  7. Atkinson, Brooks. “Introduction.” In The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralp Waldo Emerson. New York: Modern Library, 1950. p. xii.